The article argues that a critical encounter with pre-modern literatures from the national past is long overdue under the impact of a globalized discourse of sexuality. Its effects are already felt at the level of both pedagogy and literary reading, one reconstituting the other, in the ‘global classroom’, a self-conscious pedagogical space imagined by the new educational policy to bring about a globally accredited cultural homogeneity. The case study comes from teaching erotic poetry at an Indian university, from the joint literary complex of Hindi and Urdu in South Asia, a theme uncomfortably located in national culture not just because of its sexuality but its association with non-national linguistic elements which the article terms ‘Indo-Islamic’. The overlapping of the sexual modern with the Indo-Islamic resurfaces a tension in the nationalized body of literary writing in Hindi/Urdu, the major ‘national’ languages of South Asia. This encounter of erotic poetry in old Hindi and Urdu with globalized sexuality, the article shows, offers a chance to reflect on how literary studies are being reshaped by the assumptions of a monolingual, monocultural global sexuality in our nationalist times.

文章认为，在全球化的性话题的影响下，早就应该对来自全国的前现代文学进行一次批判性的相遇。它的作用已经在教学法和文学阅读的水平上得到了体现，在“全球教室”中，一个被重新构造，在新的教育政策所构想的，具有全球认可的文化同质性的自觉性教学空间中。案例研究来自印度一所大学的情色诗教学，来自南亚印地语和乌尔都语的联合文学情结，这个主题不适合地存在于民族文化中，不仅是因为其性别，而且还与非民族语言元素相关联。文章用语“印度伊斯兰教”。性现代与印度-伊斯兰的重叠再次凸显了南亚主要的“民族”语言印地语/乌尔都语的民族化文学作品的张力。文章显示，这种古老的印地语和乌尔都语色情诗与全球化的性交相遇，提供了一个反思在我们民族主义时代单一语言，单一文化的全球性交的假设下文学研究如何重塑的机会。